"What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering"
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"In a certain state it is indecent to live longer."
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"Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do."
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"Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life."
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"Great intellects are skeptical."
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"However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself."
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"Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence."
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"The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another."
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"Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure."
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"Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal."
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"And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!"
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"One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow."
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"The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything."
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"Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified."
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"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man."
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"The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'."
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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
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"What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter."
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"To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there."
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"Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it."
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